Drinks with a Lerot....

 

	We were invited out for a meal last night in the very pretty garden of one of our neighbours. There were about 15 or 16 people attending and we were to have a drink and aperitifs, then play a game
	of cricket, then carry on with the meal.   The second team would have their innings before dessert and then it would all end up with coffee and digestives.... That was the plan, and
	Mrs Ian and I duly arrived about 6 pm for the start. Of course, in France, aperitifs went on far longer than planned... Then we got the game underway with two teams of five picked each with a
	mixture of British and French players. About half way through the game we discovered this Lerot had come to join us and was happily eating the grapes totally oblivious to the huge

amount of noise and all the cameras...What a budding star he is...

Michael was there, with Mary, and I thank him for these photos... I did take some with my own camera but Michael is a bit more skilled than I am!!!!

The first team were all out for 51, as the sun set and the moon rose in the sky.   By the time we had eaten the first course, and the second team were put into bat, light was failing fast....  Even the strategic use of the car headlamps failed and the match was eventually stopped for bad light when an entire over had been bowled with not a single person seeing the ball....

Then we just sat and ate and drank and chatted and drank and ate and chatted until the early hours of the morning when we all left for our beds.  By that time, the Lerot had, apparently, already found his..

Ah.... life in Summer in France....